Fourth graders focused on geometric and organic shapes when creating these fun hamburger collages. First students drew a plate and a table cloth on a white piece of paper. Then they cut a variety of shapes out of different colors to look like a really tall hamburger. The last step was using markers to add details to their shapes.
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Students from all over the district presented their artwork at the annual K-12 Fine Arts Festival held at Ewell elementary this year. I was very proud to hand pick several amazing artists from Switzer to represent our school. It was great to see students and families supporting the arts on opening night and other times throughout the week. Here are some photos of Switzer students next to their creations.
The fourth graders also learned about artist, Keith Haring just like the sixth graders. After learning about Keith Haring, we created some gesture drawings in our sketchbook of people in action poses. The following week we used our drawings to create a positive and negative cut paper design of people in action in a simple style showing movement, just like Keith Haring.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR ART TO REMEMBER ORDERS!! The funds from Art to Remember help buy new art supplies for the next school year such as specialty paints & paper and a lot of clay for every student at Switzer to use. CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR ART TO REMEMBER PROJECTS BELOW!! Kindergarten Art: Warm Colored Sun Faces, Cool Colored Backgrounds First Grade Art: Fish Paintings based on the book, "Hooray for Fish" by Lucy Cousins Second Grade Art: Funny Frog Paintings Third Grade Art: Self Portrait Cartoons Fourth Grade Art: Colorful Chameleons Fifth Grade Art: Optical Illusions Sixth Grade Art: Student's Choice (Animal, Place, Person, or Object)
The Fourth Graders used a variety of art media to create these hearts after learning about famous American artist, Jim Dine. The first layer is a metal tooled heart. That layer was stapled to a black heart frame that was colored with special crayons. The background is a painting showing a variety of techniques such as splatter painting, sponge painting, and stencil painting. The last step was to glue all the parts together with a colored frame to create an interesting composition.
The fourth graders used a variety of 3-D forms out of clay to create these snowmen. It was important for them to use the proper clay techniques of scoring, slipping, and smoothing when creating their snowmen so that parts would not fall off. After the snowmen were fired in the kiln, students were able to paint them and add extra details like arms and scarves with other materials.
We used the art of printmaking to create these interesting fall tree compositions. Fourth graders only drew or painting on the top half of their paper. The bottom half of the paper is actually a monoprint created from the top half to look like a reflection of the fall trees.
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